I want to set up a couple of rooms in a new house; one (large family room) for home theater, the other (a sun room) for two-channel stereo. For the general HT setup, I have a newly purchased Yamaha HTR-5890, paired with JBL E100 fronts and a JBL EC35 center. I have no surround sound speakers, unless I use my old KEF C40's, which I had planned to use in the sun room, with an equally old Carver AVR100 receiver. Yes, they're old, but they still sound great -- just can't handle the new HT technologies.
Can someone recommend decent surround sound speakers and a subwoofer that would work well with the HT setup that I can get for about $600? Also, the new receiver has "zone" capabilities -- something I was told might be useful and may make my old receiver defunct. If so, I could reconfigure and maybe sell the Carver as a classic.
